Short excerpt from an Eckhart Tolle YouTube video in which the speaker questions whether the experience of life could be a dream and argues that, even if it were, one indubitable fact remains: the presence of consciousness in which experiences appear ("the fact that you are").
Did I dream the evening with Eckhart Tolle, or did this actually happen? Oh, I think it happened. Maybe it was a dream. Can you be sure that this is not a dream? Oprah used to ask people in interviews, at the very last question she would ask, maybe she still does. What do you know for sure? And people gave all kinds of answers. There's only really one thing that you can know for sure. Can you be sure that this is not a dream? Well, no, not really. It could be a dream, because just like a dream, in a little while, this whole thing will have evaporated. But even if it is a dream, there is something that you can know for sure, and that is that you are the consciousness in which this dream appears. That's something that cannot be doubted. The fact that you are.
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